---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6304"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6304"
heading: "Safety standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6304"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety"
---

# §6304. Safety standards


No [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a [professional boxing match](/usc/15/6301.md?p=8) without meeting each of the following requirements or an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) that provides equivalent protection of the health and safety of [boxers](/usc/15/6301.md?p=1):

- (1) A physical examination of each [boxer](/usc/15/6301.md?p=1) by a [physician](/usc/15/6301.md?p=7) certifying whether or not the [boxer](/usc/15/6301.md?p=1) is physically fit to safely compete, copies of which must be provided to the [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A).
- (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided under regulation of a [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) promulgated subsequent to October 9, 1996, an ambulance or medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment continuously present on site.
- (3) A [physician](/usc/15/6301.md?p=7) continuously present at ringside.
- (4) Health insurance for each [boxer](/usc/15/6301.md?p=1) to provide medical coverage for any injuries sustained in the match.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–272, § 5, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1997, see section 23(2) of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.